“Big blow” - Jairo Riedewald Sheffield United injury prognosis outlined amid Tyler Bindon, Sydie Peck fitness latest
“Big blow” - Jairo Riedewald Sheffield United injury prognosis outlined amid Tyler Bindon, Sydie Peck fitness latest
Jairo Riedewald will be out “for a couple of weeks” with an unfortunate hamstring injury that kept him out of Sheffield United’s defeat to Charlton Athletic on Saturday, Chris Wilder has confirmed, in another huge blow for the Blades. The Dutch international was a notable absentee from the teamsheet at the Valley.
It was later confirmed that he had suffered the injury in training on the eve of the trip to London, with United’s midfield options further depleted when Djibril Soumare was sent off in the first half for a poor lunge that left Harvey Knibbs leaving the pitch on a stretcher.
With Sydie Peck, Oliver Arblaster and Tom Davies all on the comeback trail from their respective issues, United are suddenly down to the bare bones ahead of Wednesday night’s trip to Southampton.
Out-of-favour Alex Matos will come into the Blades squad while Riedewald misses at least the trip to the Saints and Saturday’s home clash with Ipswich Town, with uncertainty over whether he will return in time for the Millwall away game which rounds off a busy month.
“Jairo’s going to be out for a couple of weeks,” Wilder confirmed in his pre-Southampton press conference this morning. That sort of capped off a really disappointing and strange 48 hours. Especially considering the place where we were.
“Big blow” - Jairo Riedewald Sheffield United injury prognosis outlined amid Tyler Bindon, Sydie Peck fitness latest
“Everybody was fit, everybody raring to go. Team selected and we’d gone through all the process of the preparation for the Charlton game. Jairo has been a really important part of it for us but in the last action of a regular small-sided game that we have on match days minus one, he's got to try and keep a ball in and backheeled it, and then went down.
“So, yeah, he's not going to be available for the next couple of weeks, which is a blow. A big blow. Especially the game that we were going to be playing and the situation regarding Ollie Arblaster, Sydie Peck and Tom Davies.
“It was a big blow to miss him and it will be tomorrow night and into the weekend. Let's see what happens after the Ipswich game, and hopefully he'll be available for the Millwall game. It’s a big blow for him as well, because I think everybody's really seen the type of character he is. What he does for the team, and how he makes the team tick.”
Peck made his return from injury off the bench at Charlton, after United were reduced to nine men following Japhet Tanganga’s red card, and could be thrown in from the start against Tonda Eckert’s side, while Tyler Bindon will be assessed after making way at half-time with illness.
“We had to push him through, which wasn't ideal,” Wilder said of Peck. “I would have liked to have got Tom Davies onto the pitch but obviously that wasn't ideal with the situation we were in for the first time in my career, down to nine men obviously.
“We’re monitoring Tyler. He didn't feel very well over the weekend. It didn't look like it because I thought, yet again, his and Japh’s partnership is blossoming, really. We've monitored him over the last 48 hours and we'll make a call on him pretty late.”